Firefox won't start [SOLVED]

[mrfabulous]

Hi guys, as stated in the Clementine thread, I have just done a reinstall of Mageia 4. Since reinstalling, Firefox will not open. I click on the icon and... nothing. I try from application launcher... nothing.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling from the repository and... nothing. Am using Chromium at the moment, but really would prefer Firefox.

All help will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[daniewicz]

Launch firefox from the command line to see what kind of error gets spit out.

[mrfabulous]

Hi daniewicz, I actually re-installed Mageia 4. As stated, I had just done a reinstall and thougth 'eh, may as well start over.'

So that's what I did and Firefox works fine now. Still having issues with Clementine, though.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

[n00biest]

i don't understand fully your post
too vague

now : when i have a pb of that kind, i simply delete .kde4 directory
(with one survivor, i don't remember the name of the surviving file, tho)
(just click on it and you'll see)
and all is new.
all is love.
all is finally working.

[n00biest]

for what understand
Mr fabulous had had a complete reinstall of mageia with total crushing of all files, i mean , without preserving the user partition, just to solve a ff issue
and d5000 is asking for a [SOLVED] topic ......
hard mode

del .kde4, man
it solves everything

[n00biest]

or, may be, del .mozilla
or both.

[jkerr82508]

del .kde4
it solves everything

It does not. All that it does is give you a default KDE configuration. It tells you nothing about what went wrong and so does not guarantee that the same problems will not re-appear.

It is much better, if you feel the urge to take the nuclear approach (and are sure that the problem lies in your KDE configuration), to rename it. You can then cherry-pick the configuration files that you need, save yourself a lot of effort re-configuring KDE to your preferences and perhaps also identify the problem configuration files.

Jim

[n00biest]

>if you feel the urge to take the nuclear approach

mon cher Jim,
we're talking in a thread where a guy has reinstalled, then re-installed, the OS for a ff issue : THAT is a nuclear approach.

nao, if you you wanna suggest that i am a noob, then, we're ok.
btw : to delete .kde4 resets the menu toolbar, and the pb was prolly there : the ff line of the menu was leading to an empty file, due to the install of a new ff, so the reset would have solved the pb, though, we agree on that, making a new menu line would have been better.
But one must begin somewhere, and that is why iwas suggesting the deleting.

[doktor5000]

Mr fabulous had had a complete reinstall of mageia with total crushing of all files, i mean , without preserving the user partition, just to solve a ff issue
and d5000 is asking for a [SOLVED] topic ......
hard mode

Where's your point? The user reported that he reinstalled and that Firefox works now, so I asked him to mark the topic accordingly.

And please STOP providing such recommendations to simply delete complete ~/.kde4 or ~/.mozilla folders or similar.
Renaming them or moving them away is totally sufficient to try if it solves the problem.

BTW: your menu is not stored in ~/.kde4 - it is stored in ~/.local so that would have achieved basically nothing
other then a user losing his KDE and Firefox settings and data for nothing.